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Guy Debord
WHO IS CONTROLLED: His conclusion is that the media-consumer is controlled by the images he sees. The media-consumer is pacified to the point of non-existence.
WHO CONTROLS WHOM: And this tool of control is being utilized, according to Guy Debord, by a combination of banks, mass media industury and organized crime.
This is who controls us using mass media entertainment.
Guy Debord is probably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century. He revealed so much that his publisher got whacked by.... the list of organizations above, perhaps.
His most famous essay - La société de la spectacle - translated into English in 1970 as The Society of the Spectacle(wiki article), was followed up a few decades later by the most more accessible Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (PDF in link).
But my favorite intro to Guy Debord's revealing pre-revolutionary work is probably this essay (by Morgan and Purje) that I found online: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/ ... ctacle.pdf
Some quotes from that Morgan-Purje essay:
Watching entertainment media, according to Debord, is a form of self-castration.
Complicity: giving billions of dollars worth of drill bits and cannibal recipes
to Jeffrey Dahmer
Guy Debord
WHO IS CONTROLLED: His conclusion is that the media-consumer is controlled by the images he sees. The media-consumer is pacified to the point of non-existence.
WHO CONTROLS WHOM: And this tool of control is being utilized, according to Guy Debord, by a combination of banks, mass media industury and organized crime.
This is who controls us using mass media entertainment.
Guy Debord is probably the most important philosopher of the 20th Century. He revealed so much that his publisher got whacked by.... the list of organizations above, perhaps.
His most famous essay - La société de la spectacle - translated into English in 1970 as The Society of the Spectacle(wiki article), was followed up a few decades later by the most more accessible Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (PDF in link).
But my favorite intro to Guy Debord's revealing pre-revolutionary work is probably this essay (by Morgan and Purje) that I found online: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/ ... ctacle.pdf
Some quotes from that Morgan-Purje essay:
Debord: In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life
presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was
directly lived has moved away into representation.
The Spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, medi-
ated by images.
The proliferation of images and desires alienates us, not only from ourselves, but from each
other. Debord references the phrase “lonely crowds,” a term coined by the American sociologist
David Riesman, to describe our atomization.
The Society of the Spectacle’s first chapter is entitled “Separation Perfected,” a quality that Debord describes as the “alpha and omega of the spectacle.”
Referring to the Marxist concept of false-consciousness, Debord describes how the spectacle
conceals the “relations among men and classes.” The spectacle functions as a pacifier for the
masses, a tool that reinforces the status quo and quells dissent. “The Spectacle presents itself as
something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible. It says nothing more than ‘that
which appears is good, that which is good appears,’” writes Debord. “It demands […] passive
acceptance which in fact it already obtained by its manner of appearing without reply, by its
monopoly of appearance.”
Watching entertainment media, according to Debord, is a form of self-castration.
Complicity: giving billions of dollars worth of drill bits and cannibal recipes
to Jeffrey Dahmer